Books (fiction)
in no order
Blake Butler300,000,000(Harper Perennial)
Joseph Riippi Because(Civil Coping Mechanisms)
Katie Jean Shinkle Our Prayers After the Fire(Blue Square Press)
D. Foy Made to Break(Two Dollar Radio)
Alain Robbe-Grillet A Sentimental Novel(Dalkey Archive)
Paul Curran Left Hand(Civil Coping Mechanisms)
Juliet Escoria Black Cloud(Civil Coping Mechanisms)
Jac Jemc A Different Bed Every Time(Dzanc Books)
Mark Gluth No Other(SATOR Press)
Shane Jones Crystal Eaters(Two Dollar Radio)
Lodovico Pignatti Morano Nicola, Milan(Semiotext(e))
Cassandra Troyan Blacken Me Blacken Me, Growled(Tiny Hardcore Press)
Mark Amerika Locus Solus(Counterpath Press)
Kyle Muntz Green Lights(Civil Coping Mechanisms)
Michael Seidlinger The Fun We Had(Lazy Fascist Press)
Edouard Leve Works(Dalkey Archive)
Roxanne Gay An Untamed State(Grove Atlantic)
Joshua Corey Beautiful Soul: An American Elegy(Spuyten Duyvil)
Timothy Willis Sanders Matt Meets Vik(Civil Coping Mechanisms)
Lindsay Hunter Ugly Girls(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Beau Rice Tex(Penny-Ante Press)
Justin Taylor Flings(Harper Perennial)
Alana Noel Voth Dog Men(Tiny Hardcore Press)
Kyler James The Secret of the Red Truck(Rebel Satori)
Mike Meginnis Fat Man and Little Boy(Black Balloon)
Dorthe Nors Karate Chop (Graywolf)
Laura Ellen Joyce The Luminol Reels (Calamari Press)
Kyle Minor Praying Drunk (Sarabande Books,)
Books (poetry)
in no order
Jerome Sala The Cheapskates(Lunar Chandelier Press)
Lucas De Lima Wet Land(Action Books)
Melissa Broder Scarecrone(Publishing Genius)
Mike Bushnell OHSO(Scrambler Books)
Spencer Madsen you can make anything sad(Publishing Genius)
Joyelle McSweeney Dead Youth, or, The Leaks(Litmus Press)
Kevin Killian Tweaky Village(Wonder)
Lonely Christopher Death and Disaster Series(Monk Books)
Dodie Bellamy The TV Sutras(Ugly Ducking Press)
Tosh Berman The Plum in Mr. Blum's Pudding (Penny-Ante Press)
Mike Young Sprezzatura(Publishing Genius)
D.A. Powell Repast(Graywolf)
Ted Rees Outlaws Drift in Every Vehicle of Thought(Trafficker Press)
Beach Sloth It Doesnt Matter What You Look Like On the Outside It’s Whats On The Internet That Counts (Dig That Book)
Dorothea Lasky Rome(Norton/Liveright)
Mallory Whitten Collected Poems & Stories (Monster House)
Kate Durbin E! Entertainment (Wonder)
Andrew Durbin Mature Themes (Nightboat)
Thomas Moore Skeleton Costumes (Kiddiepunk)
Cassandra Troyan Kill Manual (Artifice Books)
Paul Violi Selected Poems (Ginko Press)
Books (nonfiction)
in no order
Lynne Tillman What Would Lynne Tillman Do? (Red Lemonade), Ken Baumann Earthbound(Boss Fight Books), Bruce Hainley Under The Sign [sic](Semiotext(e)), John Waters Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America(Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Gary Indiana A Significant Loss of Human Life (Semiotext(e)), Peter Sotos Desistance(Nine Banded Books), Roxanne Gay Bad Feminist(Harper Perennial), Tony Duvert The Undiscoverable Reading(Semiotext(e)), Brian Oliu Leave Luck to Heaven(Uncanny Valley Press), Frank Smith Guantanamo(Les Figues), Pierre Guyotat Independence(Semiotext(e)), Chelsea Hodson Pity the Animal(Future Tense Books), The Yolo Pages(Boost House)
Music
in no order
Scott Walker & Sunn O))) Soused (4AD)
Iceage Plowing into the Field of Love(Matador)
Alex G DSU(Orchid Tapes)
Xiu Xiu Angel Guts: Red Classroom(Polyvinyl)
Holly Herndon Chorus(RVNG)
Pharmakon Bestial Burden(Sacred Bones)
Actress Ghettoville(Werkdiscs)
Guided by Voices Motivational Jumpsuit(GbV)
Katie Gately Pipes(Blue Tapes)
Puce Mary Persona(Posh Isolation)
Jenny Hval & Susanna Meshes of Voice (SusannaSonata)
Death Grips niggas on the moon(Soundcloud)
Objekt Flatland(PAN)
James Hoff Blaster(PAN)
Krieg Transient(Candlelight Records)
Locust After the Rain(Editions Mego)
Foxes in Fiction Ontario Gothic(Orchid Tapes)
Wild Beasts Present Tense (Domino)
Grouper Ruins(Kranky)
YOB Clearing the Path to Ascend(Neurot)
Shabazz Palaces Lese Majesty (Subpop)
Moonface City Wrecker (Jagjaguwar)
Swans To Be Kind (Young Gods)
Film
in no order
Jean-Luc Godard Adieu au language
Ryan Trecartin Comma Boat
Jonathan Glazer Under the Skin
Christophe Honore Métamorphoses
Bruno Dumont P'tit Quinquin
Wes Anderson The Grand Budapest Hotel
Jessica Hausner Amour Fou
Claire Denis Les Salauds
Luther Price Fragment
Shirley Clarke Portrait of Jason
Matt Reeves Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Art
in no order
Paul McCarthy Chocolate Factory (La Monnaie de Paris)
Inujima Seirensho Art Museum (Inujima, Japan)
Teshima Art Museum (Teshima, Japan)
James Turrell Open Sky(Chichu Art Museum, Naoshima, Japan)
Torbjorn Vejvi Standing in one space looking into another(Armory Center for the Arts, LA)
Robert Gober: The Heart us not a Metaphor (MoMA, NYC)
Vincent Fecteau @ Matthew Marks Gallery (NYC)
Stanya Kahn Don't Go Back to Sleep (SUSANNE VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES PROJECTS)
Oscar Tuazon's 'A Corner Door' Gallery (Los Angeles)
Paradise Garage(Venice, CA)
Tony Greene: Amid Voluptuous Calm(Hammer Museum, West Los Angeles)
Internet
in no order
Just outside
Entropy
espresso bongo
The Quietus
Corrupted Delights
FUCKED BY NOISE
open culture
3:AM Magazine
largehearted boy
NEW WAVE VOMIT
THE NEATO MOSQUITO SHOW
Documentary Addict
Cutty Spot
Harriet: The Blog
Fanzine
Alt Lit Gossip
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Isola di Rifiuti
pantaloons
Beach Sloth
Tiny Mix Tapes
UbuWeb
Other People with Brad Listi
Joe Brainard's Pajamas (The Sequel)
If we don't, remember me
Locus Solus: The New York School of Poets
giphy
The Wonderful World of TamTam Books
bright stupid confetti
Illuminati Girl Gang
Shabby Doll House
Grand Text Auto
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p.s. Hey. ** Keaton, Hey. Wow, you're staying really close to me. Okay, the thing is that I'm in the middle of editing our film for, like, 10 or so hours a day, so we'll have to try to sort some time in my margins, if that's okay. Do you have a working phone? Maybe send me your #, and I can call you, and we can figure it out that way? ** Gregoryedwin, Hey, man! I just wrote to you. Ha, yeah, right now the editing is going really, really well. Some of the other scenes we need to edit will be a lot trickier, but this one is kind of falling dreamily into place, albeit with enormous effort. We're at, let's see, 6 centigrade today in Paris, but I think it's supposed to drop fast and even snow tomorrow or something. ** David Ehrenstein, I just literally can not conceive of a way in which 'Exodus' could not be a huge drag. There's just nothing about it that seems promising in the tiniest. Makes sense about the importance to RS of contributors. I also really like 'Legend', but that film is nothing but style. Okay, that thing you linked to intrigues. I'll try to find a way/a time to read it. Everyone, here is Mr. Ehrenstein with a tip: 'Now HERE is a show business saga the likes of wich I guarantee you've never seen the likes of before. It's long, and quite detailed so pour yourself another come of coffee before diving in. Your mind is guaranteed to be blown.' ** Bill, Hi, Bill. Thanks! Us too. There's so much to do, but luck and Zac's genius are on our side so far. I know, strangely rockin' for Ambarchi. I was surprised (and pleased) too. Ooh, Terayama stories! That does sound most exciting! ** Etc etc etc, Hi. Yeah, it sounds like your friend and we are in the same basic boat. On our end, yeah, Zac and I are 100% simpatico about everything in the editing, so the intensity and exhaustion have a joyful vibe. Actually, you did need to tell me about academe, since I really know so little about that world other than hearing academe-ensconced friends describe their ups and downs. I've only been an adjunct professor for three years at UCLA, and basically all I did was visit sculpture students' studios and talk with them about their work and sit in on their group crits and stuff. You make the ODB book sound interesting with that complicated author psychological bent going on. I've kind of drifted from Deerhoof too after really loving them in their beginnings. I like that track and hearing what their attempt to make a Ramones song sounds like, though. You know, I know I've heard Disclosure, but I can't remember what they precisely sound like. I'll go check back in on them. Thanks! ** Steevee, Hi. Wow, Mandrill. Um, well, I haven't listened to them since I was a late teen, so I have no idea how they sound now. I can say that back then I couldn't stand them. I saw them live twice when they were opening for other bands I was into, and I thought they were super tedious. Like a more mishmashy, exotica-chasing, proggier Santana or something. But, that said, I can't even recreate their sound in my head, so who knows. Maybe I'll tiptoe very carefully into a track or two of theirs and see what happens. ** Kier, Thanks a bunch, pal of mine! Oh, what I had was a Day co-devoted to Lukas Haas and Shelley Duvall. It was ages ago. And I think I only paired them because there weren't enough clips online at that point to do either of them full-on justice. But clearly LH deserves a big day to himself. So ... wait, are you hinting that you might make an LH post? If so, I would die of happiness. If not, I'll make one as soon as I get a free stretch of minutes. Lukas cowboy collage! I like those things you bound and cut. They immediately remind me of horror movies like 'Children of the Corn' and, like, 'Jeepers Creepers 2'. Why isn't there a 'Jeepers Creepers 3'? I really like those movies. B+ is pretty good for frozen pizza. Could there even be an A frozen pizza? That julesbord thing sounds really nice. Was it? Did you like bowling? I really like bowling. I used go bowling a lot when I was in LA full-time. I've only gone once over here with Zac, Kiddiepunk, and Oscar B. It was fun. My Monday was a whole lot like my Sunday. Zac and I sat at his computer editing the first scene from noon until it was very dark. It continues to go really well. I'm kind of totally in love with the first scene. It's like a dream come true or something. And the performers are just brilliant in it. So it was a very happy day. After getting home, I just ... I don't even remember. Wow. More of the same today. We're hoping to finish the rough cut of Scene 1 by tonight if we can and then go back and rework Scene 3 starting tomorrow and then hopefully get to work on Scene 2 and find out if we can finish it by the end-of-weekend deadline too. How was your meal and bowling and every other thing? ** _Black_Acrylic, Cool. I'm ready when you are re: the Art101 post. That Dan Davies thing seems interesting. I've never heard of him before for some weird reason. ** Misanthrope, Well, that's dumb and boring and obnoxious about the casting decisions, but is not the world jam-packed with infinitely better and more important reasons to get outraged about racist manifestations than that stupid movie? Well, I'm hardly an expert or even the slightest devotee, but hasn't Bieber been relatively low key as far as the media goes lately? ** Schlix, Thanks, U! I like the current Swans, and the new album, obviously, since it's on my list. I don't play it very much, though. That live presentation by Autechre sounds so 'Autechre' it's almost funny. ** Polter, Polter, my dear buddy! It's ... well, I can't find the words ... divine (?) to see you! I'm really good, just really, really busy right now, but for really, really good reasons. Living to work ... yeah, I think I do that, it's weird. I mean I think that sounds like a good thing relative to the other possibility? Oh, your comment, your writing .... I love your writing, I've missed your writing a lot! Yeah, I think the last time you were here, you had moved, and there was a friend living with you? A complicated friend or friendship? I can't remember precisely. But if there is any precision in my memory, I'm thinking that friend moved out to be replaced with this new one? We haven't had frost yet. I'm dying for it. Maybe tomorrow, they say. Exactly, true, brilliant, about how people fade in the cold. I was thinking sort of that same thing yesterday when I was up and traveling really early by metro, and it was cold, and there was no sound and almost no one around, and I wondered if that was true or whether the cold was doing a magical illusionist kind of trick. Oh, I was in Iceland for two weeks, speaking of frost. Wow, that was amazing. You ever been there? Wow, very strange and cool story about the tram stop and age-shifting guys. It was spooky too. I'm so glad you came by to say hello. It's always so, so special and awesomeness incarnate when you're here! Big, huge love, me. ** Sypha, As someone who deliberately listens to static or borderline static-like music and enjoys that a lot, I will say that your music, or what I've heard, is not static but rather something very wonderfully sculpted and equally as pleasurable as static-like music. ** Okay. Obviously, today is the day I lay out my faves of the year. Or those that I was able to remember when I was compelling the lists. And now I ask you in return: what are some of yours? If you have a minute, it seems only fair that you would hit me back in this respect, but only if you have the time and the head-space to organize this year's things into a 'likes' category or whatever. Anyway, see you tomorrow.